Re: Power down
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:17:59 +0000
"Elmer E. Dow" <elmeredow@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:02:58 +0000
> >"Elmer E. Dow" <elmeredow@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Vincent Smeets wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hallo,
> >>>
> >>>I have an old (1999) computer too. dmesg showed that the kernel does
> >>>find my ACPI but doesn't use it because my bios is too old. It says
> >>>something like "... bios too old (1999 < 2001)". I now use the kernel
> >>>parameter "acpi=force" and now the kernel is using my ACPI. Poweroff
> >>>does now realy switch the power off!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I've read that acpi=force works with 2.4 kernels but not 2.6 like mine.
> >>What kernel are you using?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >If you look at your dmesg it suggests just that, enabling it. It can't hurt to try
> >
> >
> >
> >>Also, power management is enabled in the bios. Is that correct or is it
> >>fighting apm?
> >>
> >>Elmer
> >>
> >>
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> >Andrei
> >
> >
> acpi=force works! I first tried removing apmd, deleting apm in
> /etc/modules and adding acpi there. I also installed acpid and so on,
> but the machine complained of fatal errors, etc. So I uninstalled acpid,
> deleted acpi in /etc/modules and left just acpi=force in menu.lst -- and
> it worked.
>
> So now I'm wondering how this works without the acpi module or having
> acpi compiled into the kernel. Does forcing acpi just makes it use the
> power management in the bios?
>
> Thanks, gentlemen, for your kind assistance.
>
> Elmer
lsmod should tell you what modules you have loaded. I bet 'acpi' is there. You should also install acpid and acpitool to have some control/monitoring (was that a laptop?). But that's just fine-tuning ;)
Andrei
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